(Project Sa'bai) While some groups experienced a shortage of funds, other student leaders ensured that the costs for the project were recuperated so that the project was self-sustaining.
And they try to make projects self-sustaining (so the recipients do not keep coming back for more).Typical of this group is Social Venture Partners, a Seattle-based fund that is trying to apply the principles of venture capital to charity.
However, for the project to become self-sustaining, a "water ladder" needs to be built that will allow the prawns to make their way over the dam once they hatch at the estuary and continue their migration to settle on banks to hunt and eat snails further up the river.
It also included documentary analysis of project proposals and progress reports in addition to interviews with project staff to draw out their experiences in the field and investigate whether the projects would be self-sustaining should the current external operational research-based funding be discontinued.
Unlike many top-down development projects, where the well-intentioned construction of wells or schools fall into disrepair after the aid workers have left, Spark's projects are 94% self-sustaining.
The rail authority's latest business plan assumes ever more riders and ever less revenue but still suggests the project will ultimately be self-sustaining.
To date, MindHandHeart has supported 57 Innovation Fund projects, 11 of which are now self-sustaining.
However, before we commit ourselves to projects we intend to ensure that skills will be transferred, communities are involved and the projects will be able to become self-sustaining.
As a p.s. to that, one of the things that pleases us about this particular project is the hope that it may become self-sustaining.
Despite misgivings about the atomic bomb's potential for destruction, he joined the Manhattan Project on December 1 , 1942 one day before the first self-sustaining, controlled nuclear reaction was achieved.
